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Cheapside
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Cheap·side  (chpsd)
A street and district in London, England. It was the market center of medieval London and the site of the Mermaid Tavern, a gathering place for Elizabethan poets and playwrights.
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Some indication of the international renown of such craftsmen can be appreciated in the description in December 1483 by an Itahan ecclesiastic, Dominic Mancini, of the traffic in precious wares and gold and silver cups through London's thoroughfare of Westcheap and the warehouses and homes of the city's merchants and craftsmen.
The Age of Chivalry: Art and Society in Late Medieval England by Hughes, Jonathan / Medium Aevum
 
 
 
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